NONFICTION AUTHORS IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Resources You Can Use

Many experts have come up with eloquent ideas about introducing children to nonfiction and its value in their lives. Look for articles, studies and books tailored to your own interests in the lists below.

Articles You Can Use

A growing collection of articles about using nonfiction with students in classrooms and in libraries. If the title is self-explanatory, we just supply the necessary link. Otherwise, we include a synopsis or a quotation from the article so you can see if you’re interested in reading it.

There’s a Sea-Change Coming to Education: In May of 2012, Vicki Cobb interviewed Dr. Myra Zarnowski for the I.N.K. blog about the effect of the Common Core State Standards on the use of nonfiction in the classroom. This post went viral with more than 6,000 page views.

Literacy-in-Content-Areas
From this wiki: “This is what reading instruction in the 21st Century needs to address, and we CAN NOT wait until our students are in middle and high school, knee deep in content to address this. There are immediate and effective things we can be doing at every grade level to prepare students for this challenge.”

Some Characteristics of Memorable Expository Writing: Effects of Revisions by Writers with Different Backgroundsby Michael E. Graves, Wayne H. Slater, Duane Roen, Teresa Redd-Boyd, Ann H. Duin, David W. Furniss and Patricia Hazeltine. Published by: National Council of Teachers of English. Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Oct., 1988), pp. 242-265. (article consists of 24 pages). Available via JStor.

Reading Nonfiction for FunWe do not want to develop students who read nonfiction just for function, or for school success, but students who read nonfiction for enjoyment, to be fascinated, to discover.

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pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200902AuthorTalk.pdf

Reasons for Using and Teaching Nonfiction
by K. Bucher and M. Lee Manning
Young adult nonfiction is often ignored in schools. This article argues that YA nonfiction needs to be part of the curriculum and recreational reading.

Studies You Can Use

This interesting research that may inspire you to try new things while working with students.